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Mobilising funding: developing a sustainable strategy
Your funding search needs a coherent, defensible strategy. Clarify needs, identify appropriate sources and prepare your approach to partners. Strengthen your ability to present priorities and secure funding over the long term.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- BFA004FR Code
Presentation
As public budgets tighten and competition for funding intensifies, mobilising diverse, sustainable resources has become essential for every organisation. This course directly addresses that challenge: it provides the keys to understanding new dynamics in international aid, quickly identifying relevant calls for proposals and securing strong partnerships.
The programme begins by analysing developments in international aid: you will examine new public donor priorities and learn to identify suitable calls for proposals. You will then build a comprehensive strategy by exploring alternative sources, designing lasting partnerships and mastering the full funding cycle. The course concludes with practical application: writing a persuasive concept note, adopting a donor's critical perspective in a simulation and developing your own resource mobilisation action plan.
Beyond the skills acquired, the course delivers a tangible outcome: a personal resource mobilisation action plan, developed step by step throughout the 3 days. Incorporating your priorities, donor ecosystem and internal resources, it is immediately operational and enables you to start taking action as soon as you return.
Objectives
By the end of this funding mobilisation course, you will be able to:
- Diversify funding sources and strengthen your organisation's financial independence;
- understand donor dynamics and expectations;
- develop an appropriate, sustainable resource mobilisation strategy;
- identify and analyse public donors and their calls for proposals;
- build an effective partnership approach and pool resources;
- master the funding cycle and meet donor requirements;
- write a relevant concept note and establish your personal action plan.
Program
Module 1: Analysing developments in international aid
- Understanding major public aid trends and their impact on organisations' financial independence.
- Detailed mapping of public donors: identification, priorities and budget cycles.
- In-depth analysis of calls for proposals: prerequisites, selection criteria and strategic priorities for successful funding diversification.
Module 2: Building a resource mobilisation strategy
- Comparing public, private and alternative funding sources in line with the organisation's business model.
- Designing lasting partnerships and pooling resources to increase impact and reduce risks.
- Developing a comprehensive, sustainable resource mobilisation strategy incorporating the funding cycle and donor requirements.
Module 3: Putting funding mobilisation into practice
- Write a persuasive concept note aligned with donor expectations and your personal action plan.
- Adopt a donor's critical perspective in a scenario to assess and improve funding proposals.
- Build and finalise your personal resource mobilisation action plan, then consolidate best practices to sustain your results.
Audience
This course is intended for:
- Managers and executives of local and national civil society organisations seeking stronger financial independence and a sustainable resource mobilisation strategy.
- Resource mobilisation and partnership officers seeking to diversify funding sources and understand donor dynamics.
- Programme coordinators who need to master the funding cycle and donor requirements to sustain their projects.
- Anyone involved in strategic planning or project funding who wants the skills to map donors and write an effective concept note.
Prerequisites
This course requires the following prerequisites:
- Knowledge of how a CSO operates: basic knowledge of civil society organisation operations is essential to contextualise funding strategies and the specific challenges these organisations face.
- Management or fundraising experience: experience in project management or seeking funding enables you to apply resource mobilisation concepts and tools in a concrete context.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
- Case study
Course highlights
- 100% practical approach: group work, real-world case studies and scenarios immediately place you in a professional role.
- Ready-to-use toolkit: concept notes, call-for-proposal analysis grids and partnership templates, all field-tested and immediately adaptable.
- Daily consolidation and personal action plan: each day concludes by sharing learning, and the course ends with your own operational roadmap.
Dates and sessions
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